Rudy Rucker Quotes

If you think of your life as a kind of computation, it's quite abundantly clear that there's not going to be a final answer and there won't be anything particularly wonderful about having the computation halt!
Rudy Rucker

Life, Wonderful, Won

One of the nice things about science fiction is that it lets us carry out thought experiments.
Rudy Rucker

Science, Nice, Thought

A computation is a process that obeys finitely describable rules.
Rudy Rucker

Process, Rules, Obeys

Lately I've been working to convince myself that everything is a computation.
Rudy Rucker

Everything, Working, Convince

Some ideas you have to chew on, then roll them around a lot, play with them before you can turn them into funky science fiction.
Rudy Rucker

Science, Before, Play

Advice to beginning SF writers? Write a lot, finish what you write, and when it's done, keep sending it out for quite awhile.
Rudy Rucker

Done, Advice, Keep

All living things are gnarly, in that they inevitably do things that are much more complex than one might have expected.
Rudy Rucker

Living, Might, Complex

At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks you can bang around.
Rudy Rucker

Good, Around, Books

But how does it feel to plug into a system that's say, a million times as smart as a person.
Rudy Rucker

Smart, Person, Times

Computations are everywhere, once you begin to look at things in a certain way.
Rudy Rucker

Once, Begin, Everywhere

Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn't deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly make any money publishing an electronic book.
Rudy Rucker

Money, Book, Enough

I like a book better if I can't predict what's going to happen.
Rudy Rucker

Book, Happen, Predict

I like to do things that are surprising and different.
Rudy Rucker

Different, Surprising

I think dry nanotechnology is probably a dead-end.
Rudy Rucker

If all else fails, there's always print or web zines.
Rudy Rucker

Else, Print, Web

If we suppose that many natural phenomena are in effect computations, the study of computer science can tell us about the kinds of natural phenomena that can occur.
Rudy Rucker

Science, Study, Tell

In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings.
Rudy Rucker

Science, Book, Wonderful

It's soothing to realize that my mind's processes are inherently uncontrollable.
Rudy Rucker

Mind, Realize, Soothing

It's tedious to watch something very obvious being worked out, like a movie that's not particularly good and after about half an hour you know how it's going to end.
Rudy Rucker

Good, End, After

Now, being a science fiction writer, when I see a natural principle, I wonder if it could fail.
Rudy Rucker

Science, Fail, Natural

Science fiction writers put characters into a world with arbitrary rules and work out what happens.
Rudy Rucker

Work, Science, Put

Selling a book or story has never become absolutely automatic for me.
Rudy Rucker

Book, Become, Story

The hard fact is that not everyone does get published.
Rudy Rucker

Hard, Everyone, Fact

Traditional science is all about finding shortcuts.
Rudy Rucker

Science, Finding, Shortcuts

Unfortunately our nation, nay, our world, is run by evil morons.
Rudy Rucker

Evil, Nation, Run

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Scientist

Born: March 22, 1946

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